Let us all unite in the name of democracy - Charlie Chaplin

Speech by Charlie Chaplin in movie "The Great Dictator" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grea...

*** Full transcript of his Speech ***
I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me I say, "Do not despair."
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
You don't hate. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty!
In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written, "The Kingdom of God is within man. Not one man nor a group of men, but in all men. In you!"
You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness.
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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[Monkayskillz]

look up the song Time from Inception and pause it at 0:00. Pause this video at 53 seconds. Then play both videos at the same time. It's an amazing experience!

[Royal Adam]

WHY OUR POLITICIANS DO NOT SPEAK LIKE HIM????? HAVING PEOPLE LIKE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,SARAH PALIN,RICK PERRY,RAND PAUL,RON PAUL, & OBAMA???

[Fenweruha]

I came here from the Open Tech Forever video on indiegogo.

[whoooist]

caps lock is cruise control for awesome

[nohpockyforkitty]

Why do we have people who type like you? lol.

[Marek Bilnicki]

shit, my eyes started to sweat

[shaun5515]

Tristam ft PBat -The ruler

[Moss570]

Why does your grammar suck? Why all caps?

[Landorghini]

Cause they have no power, they are afraid to be killed like JF Kennedy.

They are slaves of the industry. They don't care about you and your family, they only care themselves, even Obama, the poor black president everyone hoped he would made the dream come true Martin Luther King once had. But he failed, he's poisoned by the industry which have the power. At least they think they have the power because us people have forgotten that we humans, we have the power!! Yes we do! Let us all unite!!

[Landorghini]

Awesome dude!!

[Joshua Jordan]

60 plus years later.... still valid...

[fram4153]

It was the 1940's... there wasn't much in the way of audio that they could add to emphasize emotion. The idea that it was specifically put in there to make people cry is moronic. It was put in at the end because the part of the scene that the music leads into was cut. Watch the whole movie before taking things out of context and stop being so narrowminded.